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Saturday, January 3, 2015

Embrace Native Plants & Redress Climate Change

I've been waiting for western religion to get on the climate change
bandwagon, seeing creation care as a more prominent moral & ethical
issue. Love seeing Mr. Pope stand up. As climate change increases
extinction rates for plants and animals, how we manage private and
public landscapes is a direct response to our moral and ethical beliefs
toward ourselves, one another, and all life. Choosing native plants in
our gardens is certainly one way to celebrate life, to become empowered,
and to connect with larger issues that might seem too big or too
hopeless. Native plants stand a better chance of helping wildlife adjust
to climate change and will be better adapted to climatic swings.

Don't
let anyone tell you natives are "limiting," or that advocating for them
is "finger wagging" or "preaching." The truth is, using native plants
awakens us to our negative (and positive) role on this planet, something
we don't want to address or confess; that's human nature. But when we
embrace the anger, denial, grief, and loss we become something MUCH
better than if we hadn't -- we become agents of super positive change,
stronger, more resilient, and beacons of faith in action. Our landscapes
become selfless acts of defiance. Our gardens become homecomings.

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